Do these work together? I am playing Bard/AA build. This bow seems just perfect for a bard.

They work together in the sense that AA doesn't tend to have Bond to spare for interrupt abilities, so Xbow weapon modal is a nice benefit. It won't remove the accuracy penalty on non-imbued shots.

 

IIRC, The only ranged weapons that avoid the penalty are:

- Frostseeker

- Thundercrack Pistol

- Essence Interruptor

- Dragon's Dowry

 

FWIW, I ran a single class Arcane Archer hireling through the SSS expansion (PotD upsacled), and never found the malus to be too significant after I was out of Bond. The utility of the Xbow is probably very worth it on a Chanter multiclass, too, because you're going to go through Bond like crazy and Chanters naturally have some downtime, so you'll be auto-attacking often enough.

I mean it's gonna be one of the very last weapons you get from one of the hardest fights in the game. You might give yourself anxiety if you create a build with it in mind

There's always the console if you want it for the whole game.

Maybe it's still the case, maybe it got fixed, but multi-projectile weapons like Blunderbuss, Frostseeker and this crossbow didn't work well with Imbue shots: the first projectile would trigger the imbue spell (so far so good) but the following projectiles would not do hit rolls and thus get lost completely.

Edited March 23, 20196 yr by Boeroer